Olaf Scholz has been elected to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's next chancellor.
Olaf Scholz is set to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's next chancellor, after winning 395 of 707 votes cast in a Bundestag vote.
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His Social Democrats (SPD), together with the Greens and pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), have 416 seats in the new 736-seat parliament. Scholz needed a majority of 369 votes.
The Social Democrat, who served as Merkel's deputy and finance minister in the outgoing grand coalition, is now expected at Bellevue Palace, where German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will formally appoint him.
His centre-left Cabinet, made up of eight male and eight female ministers, will be the first coalition of its kind at federal level in Germany.
Australian Associated Press
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